The below article from the smart people at telecommunications giant Ericsson outlines the important role 5G and its fast connectivity can provide towards the more effective application of autonomous things;…

Drone services company RocketDNA is going places, leveraging the data capturing capabilities of its xBot ecosystem, which is centred around the automated capabilities of the drone-in-a-box systems. We have written…

The fallout from DJI and other Chinese drones’ imminent ban from the US commercial drone market rages on, with first responders in the country decrying the pandemonium that is likely…

We know we have previously covered how drone technology is applied to warehouse management, with Nokia’s drones seemingly have a hold on that segment of the market. Well; apparently Flyability…

Kudos to Drone Industry Insights for choosing to discuss energy efficiency and sustainable, climate-friendly energy resources in today’s article. As more and more countries open up the lower atmosphere for…

We think they do have to try, if only it may be for record purposes; but we do not think that the people at the forefront of fighting DJI’s ban…

We found this research by Thao Pan, a research fellow at Monash University really interesting. While our observations of delivery by drone in Africa have been largely received in positive…

Chinese drone maker JOUAV has announced the launch of a revamped version of the PH-20 multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, a an enterprise drone system designed to enhance the efficiency and…

Today’s article from drone research professionals at Drone Industry Insights looks at drone technology in the agricultural industry. The original was published here. Following the in-depth look at drones in Energy and drones…

The passing into law of a bill potentially banning Chinese addictive social media app TikTok by the US Congress is giving fellow Chinese addictive drone manufacturer, DJI, sleepless nights. In…

For cargo drone company, Drone Delivery Canada – which recently merged operations with Volatus Aerospace – the future of cargo delivery is not doing away with conventional means of transport…

Chinse drone manufacturer, JoUAV has launched the second generation of its drone nest solution, and below is more information about the new product’s features; which has been supplied by the…

When it comes to innovation in the manufacturing side of the commercial drone industry, China is the capital, the hub, the heartbeat, the nerve centre, the Mecca of all things…

American drone technology and services distribution company, Volatus Aerospace thinks the commercial drone industry is now ripe for the next stage of growth, which the company reckons can only be…

Commercial drone manufacturing giant DJI has finally released its DJI Agras T50 and T25 model of agricultural drones for the worldwide market, with the T50 becoming the company’s new flagship…

It might have been unremarkable in its simplicity but when Zip 856 made a landing to deliver two bags of IV fluid from Zipline’s distribution centre in Ghana’s Western North…

Today, the research professionals at Drone Industry Insights have chosen to tackle the elephant in the room: Drone technology regulation and legislation. We know there are times when drone laws…

Coming more often than we’d love to, there are times in our lives when we are outdoors and we need power. Perhaps we can be working on a project and…

Drone research company Drone Industry Insights’ preliminary analysis into various world drone markets this time makes a stopover in the Nordic countries. Let’s see where the opportunities lie for drone…

World leading commercial and civilian drone maker DJI has released the second version of its Avata model of first-person view (FPV) drones; and, judging by its online reception, it seems…

Artificial intelligence. We guess are valid arguments to be made on both sides with regards to this latest disruptive technology, which is promising to make previously cumbersome or dangerous tasks…

Chinese drone maker DJI is ramping up its drone box game with the release of the DJI Dock 2, the company’s second iteration of its drone-in-a-box solution. And unlike the…

Step by steady step, delivery drone technology is spreading across the USA, as it looks like delivery drone maker Wing and online food ordering and delivery platform DoorDash are becoming…

Today, our favourite researchers at Drone Industry Insights are in India, the land that named a drone after one of the most famous faces in world cricket. Being China’s neighbour,…

After years of promises, false take-offs, failed trials and a few frustrations, it seems the integration of drone technology in African police organisations is beginning to take shape for real….

With globally renowned drone manufacturing and drone services companies that include DJI, Autel, Yuneec, Terra Drone and many others, it is safe to say Asia is the home of the…

Yesterday, we took a peek back with drone logistics company Zipline, to check the year they have had since the launched medical drone logistics in partnership with the Bayelsa regional…

After years of exponential financial injections, investment in drone technology companies across the world seems to be slowing down, according to the below report from Drone Industry Insights. It could…

Okay; we do admit that was a bit click-baity. We know there is a already a drone racing league going on somewhere in the world (although it does take place…

Commercial drone industry research company Drone Industry Insights’ report on the state of the drone market in agriculture is out; and we are going to dive straight into it. Trigger…

Swiss company Flyability – the makers of commercial drones for data collection in confined spaces – have nuggets to share with regards the benefits of drone technology when applied to…

We know we have covered this before, but it is still a matter of national pride that South African inspection engineering start-up Dela Scan has made it to the case…

In the below case study, a company took Flayability’s Elios 3 drone under the city of Brussels in Belgium, in a massive project to help the city become smarter. An…

As drone manufacturers, service providers, aviation authorities and related stakeholders continue with their groping efforts in their attempts to finger the pulse on the best ways to integrate drone technology…

Continuing with its coverage of regional and national drone markets across the world, Drone Industry Insights has decided to open with new year with a glimpse (and they do insist…

The guys at research company drone Industry Insights are back for the new year; and their first item on the agenda is to… Look back at the old year. And…

The following article is a reproduction of an article from a small drone manufacturing company out of China. The company is called DJI and you may have heard of it….

We like the fact that – despite the company’s heavy focus on serving industry skewed towards drone applications in remote sensing – RocketDNA actually has an eye out for the…

You feel this is a story that will never go away. Which we sadly admit is a tacit acknowledgement of our bleak outlook on the possibility of a future where…

World leading commercial drone manufacturing company DJI has released new software for survey professionals, to go with the drones that have made to collect data in the survey and mapping…

We have reported incidents before of drone technology being used to save the lives of heart attack patients via the timely delivery of defibrillators to the scene; rather than sending…

Just leaving this plug out here for a bunch of our friends in the drone industry that contributed to the latest edition of the Drone Professional anthology. The book is…

The below case study was taken from Flyability, whose drone, the Elios 3, was used to survey and map out the old workings on a mine in New York USA….

When news broke that DJI were adding a delivery series to their inventory of unmanned aircraft systems, we went high and wide to bring you the story – even when…

Our friends at JOUAV are back with nuggets on the effectiveness of drone technology in border management operations. The insights are well worth your time. The evolution of border patrol…

The below article – a brilliant look into the application of LiDAR and photogrammetry in remote sensing – was supplied by JOUAV, a drone manufacturing company based in China. We…

The below research article is a plug for the contribution Zipline has made to healthcare delivery infrastructure of the countries in which it has established operations. These countries include Rwanda,…

Finally. In a way, the opening statement below from Drone Industry Insights is just a fact: there are very little headlines about the commercial African drone space, if at all….

Chinese industrial drone maker JOUAV has released a new multi-purpose industrial drone, the PH-20, which the company hopes will raise the level in industrial applications. According to the manufacturer, the…

So the debate for and against the use of drone technology in South Africa rages on. After the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) reminded stakeholders that there…

The article below from the good people at Drone Industry Insights is their polite way of reminding the world commercial drone manufacturers exist in the world – outside of the…

We have read how Zipline, the leading drone logistics company in the world, has boasted about its well over one million flights worldwide. By comparison, Wing – another drone logistics…

It is one thing watching a video of the DJI Dock at work, or reading what it can do. But physically laying your eyes on one and watching up close…

Drone Industry Insights’ preliminary national and regional analysis of the commercial drone industry takes us to Spain today, and the initial results look promising. Spain’s drone market is blossoming. The…

In their continuing series of a closer scrutiny into how the drone industry is faring in specific countries and regions, researchers at Drone Industry Insights have lifted the lid of…

World leading drone maker DJI has released the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone, a 249gram machine, which the manufacturer says is perfect for creatives. Below is the press release issued…

American enterprise drone maker Skydio has released the Skydio X10 as their latest offering for the enterprise market. It is a machine the manufacturer is really keen to make sure…

Do you understand how much military and police services people love their bars? Of course, it would be hard to understand if you have never been a member of the…

They already have a Flying Labs representative among their midst, so Colombia must be doing something right in their contribution towards the drone industry in the global south. It is…

The results of Drone Industry Insights’ 2023 Drone Barometer Survey are out. And here is the long and short of it – a few more people are finding employment in…

As in Africa, there are countries in Latin America that are beset by transport challenges; a situation that has given an opportunity for drone technology to thrive, especially in the…

… and, maybe, when not to? For those farmers and agriculture professionals still thinking of whether or not to choose drone technology to replace traditional crop spraying methods, the article…

Countries in Southern Africa – particularly those close to the Indian Ocean – have suffered devastating loss of lives, property and untold damage to infrastructure, owing to unwelcome annual visits…

South African precision agriculture software provider Aerobotics is looking to make further inroads into the US market with the release of its Aeroview platform, which will come as part of…

One of the big reasons why we love to present reports from research company, Drone Industry Insights as they are is that they always give us a sober analysis of…

Any of you guys remember a story we carried a few months ago, where a Chinese solar installation company used a drone to transport solar panels 300metres from the foot…

Our ever-analytic pals at Drone Industry Insights have released their latest take on the direction the drone industry has been taking in 2023. It is going up. But what we…

Today’s Drone of Reason is a no-brainer: August 9 every year is Women’s Day in South Africa, a day which derives its superpowers to the women’s marching protest in 1956;…

Researchers at Drone Industry Insights have released their analysis of the state of drone regulation in 2023, and below is their report. Drone regulations are structured so that binding aviation…

Today we’re gonna talk drone parachutes. You know, those pieces of material that are practically the airbags for drones – you hope they never get to flap open; but want…

The world’s biggest drone maker DJI has released a new drone, the DJI Air 3, the successor to the Air 2S whose aerial imaging prowess the manufacturer claims are enhanced…

We love this – questions about drone technology in Africa are moving beyond just the hype to the hard yards needed to scale up drone operations in every facet of…

We are so hurt. We feel betrayed and let down and disappointed and upset and saddened and… everything that dispirits a person’s soul. We thought the guys over at Drone…

It is a reality of the world we live in today that there is very little to no love lost between the USA and China; a situation that has spilled…

Like the kids of today would say; find somebody who commits to you like the Rangelov brothers committed to getting the Black Swan cargo drone soaring into the skies. Or…

Just how useful has drone technology been to various industrial applications? We do know how military grade drones have changed and are continuing to change the face of warfare forever….

The world’s biggest industrial drone manufacturer, DJI, has launched yet another new drone; this time on the Matrice range. The new DJI Matrice 350 RTK (M350RTK) is supposed to be…

Drone technology has worked out the equation of getting packages to where they are needed in record time. But the question still remains on how do you actually get a…

So; how have the drone companies and drone services providers listed on stock exchanges been performing in the past year. The good people at research company Drone Industry Insights have…

Last year, drone services company DroneDeploy helped train at least 40 young South Africans on how to fly drones and use them to collect data The project was part of…

Non-Governmental health care organisation VilageReach’s Global Technical team Director Tapiwa Mukwashi recently went on a canoe ride in the DRC, a journey which gave him a practical appreciation of the…

Police in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have busted a syndicatethat was using a drone to smuggle gold nuggets into the country. Xinhua quoted the public security bureau of…

We have been getting a lot of enquiries from readers who wish to know where they can get training for various occupations in the drone space. So we have listed…

Our friends at Drone Industry Insights have released their latest report for publicly traded drone stocks for the year 2022. But as they reiterate below; this is just their educated…

Industrial drones are mostly about data collection; and one of the most important data collection implements that can be saddled on a drone is the camera. So DJI went on…

The below article, which first appeared in International Airport Review, is an interview with Skyports’ Sanjay Suresh, General Manager APAC, Skyports Drone Services, and Pedro Cascales Dominguez, Senior Vertiport Planner….

It is good news for banana producing countries in Africa; especially those in west and central Africa. Agriculture technology company XAG – the manufacturer of the XAG agricultural drone –…

Drone maker DJI has released its third iteration of the Inspire drone range, which it says is actually a perfect movie-making camera mounted on a drone. And just to reiterate…

A South African drone services start-up says it has found a new way to inspect, monitor and maintain a solar power plant. Cape Town-based Integrated Aerial Systems (IAS) specialises in…

By now, we figure there are a lot of people who are really grateful that the Western Cape Government Emergency Medical Services department in South Africa endured the rigorous Remote…

The below article was taken from africanDRONE, an organisation that seeks to empower drone entrepreneurs in Africa by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge….

The below article was taken from Skydio. As our infrastructure continues to age, it becomes increasingly important to find innovative ways to inspect and maintain it. One technology that has…

Our friends over at Drone Industry Insights have released their drone investment report for the past year. Although not doing so at a rate as exponential as it has done…

Because of the heartbreaking Turkish and Syrian disaster brought about by the resent earthquake in these two countries, we figured this might be the time to look at how drone…

The case study below from our friends at XAG shows the results that returned when the effectiveness of crop spraying drones was tested on a vineyard New Zealand. As wine…

Sometimes you just have to laugh. It might sound incredible, but we can assure you that even before we started perusing the State of the Province Address document for South…

Today’s analysis from Drone Industry Insights is about Advanced Air Mobility. Basically, it is about the integration of passenger and cargo drones into busy urban skies and the freer atmospheres…

…While Draganfly spreads into India Delta Drone – the France-based parent company of African drone services giant Delta Drone international has just announced that it will be distributing drone-based Appliances,…

Yea; we know we’ve been away for a while. Perhaps we need to apologise for that, but… maybe some other time. Happy new year everyone. While we were away, our…

Africa might not be there yet when it comes to the design and manufacturing side of things; but it will always take some of the credit for providing a good…

Research company Drone Industry Insights has released its top drones for the delivery – and keen followers of the drone technology will be little surprised to learn that it is…

Another day; another drone from our Lord and Saviour, DJI. The drone manufacturing conglomerate’s agriculture wing has launched the DJI Mavic 3 Multispectral, which the company says will be the…

Chinese precision agriculture solutions provider XAG is working farmers in Brazil to spearhead the adoption of drone and related robotic technology in the industry. In the below article, the company…

Chinese drone maker, DJI, has released the enterprise series of its Mavic 3 model of drones, which can apparently fly for 45 minutes. Below is what the manufacturer had to…

The below article was written by Fiona D’Arcy and originally appeared in The Conversation. Fiona is a PhD candidate in Earth Sciences at McGill University. Volcanic eruptions cannot be predicted…

In the aftermath of the Jagersfontein flooding disaster, where the tailings dam wall collapsed and mining waste sludge flooded a nearby residential area in South Africa’s Free State Province, we…

Chinese industrial drone maker XAG are taking their P100 agricultural drone to the world, and they were in Vietnam recently. Below is the manufacturer’s account of how the sojourn went….

Many readers will remember the Global Air Drone Academy (GADA) as a drone training institution that has been working with the American Embassy to conduct drone technology bootcamps in Zambia…

The CEO and former CTO of Alphabet’s drone subsidiary Wing, Adam Woodworth recently spoke to journalists, analyst, author and speaker John Koetsier on his company’s vision for drone delivery, on…

Did you know that there is money to be earned as a drone photographer in real estate? Our experts at DJI reckon there is a niche for aerial drone photography…

Here is what DJI have to say about their new product, the Avata Drone and its accessories, the DJI Goggles 2 and the DJI Motion Controller. DJI, the world’s leader…

With many urban settlements in the world making plans for the introduction of unmanned aerial vehicles in their airspaces, an analyst has made the plea for more research and wider…

The below article originally appeared on IT-Online and was written by Dean Conde, UTM lead at iOCO Digital. A Johannesburg-based subsidiary of technology services giant, EOH, iOCO is an information…

DJI has released its 2021 industry report for agricultural drones. It is a really good read, and we reproduce it below. Industry Background From “plant protection drones” to “agricultural drones”…

Having warmed up to drone technology at the first ever drone conference held in Zimbabwe last November, Zimbabwe will converge in Harare again starting today to discuss latest development in…

The construction industry has carried the tag of being the most technology-shy industry ever. Somehow, professionals in the industry love working with their bare hands, as they do the comfortable…

Debate has been swelling up within drone industry circles on the place of human pilots along the drone value chain. Informal conversations with drone services providers have indeed revealed the…

We love to follow the latest trends in the application of drone technology in various industries. And the more we here from experts, drone manufacturers and Original Equipments manufacturers themselves,…

Drone expert Callum Holland has shared the below nuggets for entrepreneurs hoping to crack the code in offering drone services to clients. Callum himself has run a drone services business…

Harrison Wolf is a drone technology optimist. Now the Director of Global Aviation Policy at leading drone logistics company Zipline, Mr Wolf has been in the drone industry for over…

With the drone global market having an expected worth of 15 billion US dollars by 2022, it seems the industry will soon be expanding into another niche market soon –…

Of course, you have to do what the Namibians do. The Namibian Drone Academy has shared some very useful information about tourists wishing to fly drones while visiting Namibia. We…

This will be a bit of a long read; but it is from the experts. DJI Enterprise has shared pointers on how to use thermal imaging with drone technology, and…

We know that the drone industry is a growing industry worldwide, with commercial applications for drones that are taking over tasks that we may not have imagined before. But where…

Tshwane-based non-profit organisation Africa Beyond the 4th Industrial revolution (AB4IR) is playing its part in bridging the digital divide in South Africa by empowering communities through technology, innovation and incubation….

We reproduce the below article from drone technology expert Callum Holland, which we can only conclude is a toast to players in the drone industry who are not afraid to…

Our experts at agricultural drone services developer and provider XAG made a stopover in Cambodia on their world tour to bring drone-based solutions to precision agriculture. Below is an account…

Latvian drone company FIXAR Global has released a autonomous new long range eVTOL drone, the FIXAR 025, which it says was made with large-scale missions for commercial and industrial applications….

…working with authorities to expedite medical drone logistics Remember the story we covered a while back about how the Benin government was trying drone technology to curb maternal mortality in…

We are used to unmanned aerial systems in agriculture flying over our farms, their containers laden with liquid spray to be applied over crops. If not spraying, the drones are…

We do remember that the subject of drone fishing is a hot one in South Africa right now, following the ban on the use of drones during fishing expeditions by…

Lausanne, SWITZERLAND – Flyability, the Swiss maker of confined space drone technology has released the Elios 3, the third offering in the company’s Elios range of drones. We know we…

It is a question that has kept many an aviation regulator all over the world awake at night. How to keep the lower skies safe in the face of an…

Today is DJI Mini 3 Pro Day. The world’s biggest drone maker DJI has just announced the release of its much-anticipated drone in the smallest range – the DJI Mini…

One of the biggest reasons why drone technology has been quick to take root in Africa has been the maximum and quick gains garnered at a fraction of the cost…

After three long days of flashing smiles, mixing handshakes and pandemic-friendly elbow bumps, and talking about their vision for the future of roofing, John Kiesel and Ryan Resides could finally…

The experts from agricultural drone manufacturer, XAG have shared the below use case, where their drones are helping rice farming efforts in Vietnam. Dong Thap, VIETNAM – As the monsoon…

From senseFly Drones are fast becoming a crucial tool in agriculture, but how do you know if they are the right choice for your business? Olivia Soares de Camargo, Customer…

So; which industries have taken drone technology like a duck to water? Many might be tempted to ask this question, as if the answer were completely straightforward. However, defining the…

We all know what medical drones have done to communities in Africa that badly needed medical supplies to be delivered in time to save lives in locations that are usually…

Now and again, somebody comes up with a comprehensive accounting of the journey travelled by the drone industry in Africa so far, where it is now; and where it is…

Thinking of investing in drone technology? Should be a bummer for you then, that you cannot buy shares for DJI at any stock exchange whatsoever. But there are drone companies…

We all love drones, for all the interminable reasons they have made the work load bearable in various industrial and humanitarian operations. You can literally pick any story on this…

It was all about the payload when DJI finally unveiled its new flagship unmanned aerial vehicle for enterprise users yesterday. As earlier rumoured, the new DJI Matrice30 drone is like…

A youth organisation in Cape Town, South Africa is opening up possibilities for young people in the Cape Flats area in the city by introducing them to the world of…

The Indian government recently went ahead with a ban for all commercial drone imports, instead hoping the local industry would be enough for all drone-based needs for the local market….

This is a brilliant article about drone the enormous work drones are doing in wildlife conservation. It was written by Kathryn Hulick and first appeared in Science News for Students….

The use of drones for energy infrastructures is and will continue to be the leading market for drone technology throughout the world. This is due to both the societal importance…

Passenger drone manufacturers are promising to give us personal air transport without the need for a pilot. It almost feels like the flying cars we’ve all wished for at one…

Following reports that a political leader in South Africa has opened a police case after he spied a drone suspiciously making rounds around his home, and the pleas from the…

Mirko Cesena can personally testify that he has had fun flying racing drones in championship drone racing all over the world, and indeed he had with small manned aircraft too….

Yesterday, we had an account of how drone technology can be valuable in heavy rain and flooding situations; their most recent helping hand coming in the aftermath of the cyclones…

We have previously covered Dumisani Kaliati here as one of the many success stories from the African Drone and Data Academy in Malawi. And we also covered him in a…

We are worried; and we believe it is for a good reason. Maybe worried a strong word at this point in time, but we are certainly concerned. As you will…

We all know how hard it is to predict what a human mind get do; and we are looking at the people who abuse drones for criminal and nuisance purposes…

We have been covering too many articles about drone abusers of late; and we feel it is only natural to remind people out there that there is technology that is…

We love the below guide from Heliguy for survey professionals, which we believe survey professionals will find really useful when choosing a drone and data capturing implements during survey operations….

Below is the voice of the experts at Drone Industry Insights taking stock of what the year 2021 brought for the drone industry. What did the news reveal about the…

When it comes to feeding the world’s ever-growing population, farmers deserve all the help they can get. To get the best out of every inch of farmland, modern farmers are…

In the aftermath of the fire that gutted part of the library at the University of Cape Town last May, drones flew in to assess the damage. The data captured…

From Scott Buell, Founder and CEO, Drone Legends Every time something new, innovative or high-tech comes into the picture, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) community gets excited. Because…

Malaria has been a deadly scourge of a disease, especially to citizens of low-income countries. Transmitted through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito, malaria was responsible for the deaths…

Toronto Police’s drone programme taking policing to new levels Imagine growing up in the Roaring 20s — a time when automobiles had recently replaced horse-drawn carriages and families gathered around…

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government joined hands with non-profit organisation VillageReach in 2020 to launch the Drones for Health Programme, in which drone technology would be used to…

On its outlook, 2021 was a year which we hoped that one thing that had dragged our lives back in 2020 would finally be on its way to hell.  …

Lt. Will Huddler is an 18-year law enforcement veteran at a large metropolitan police agency in the southwest United States. He has led the investigations of over 30 officer-involved shootings…

At the Security Drone Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa recently, Sam Husseini, Regional Sales Director for Middle East, Africa, and Turkey at airspace security company Dedrone gave a comprehensive…

Another year ending – and DJI has been added to yet another list by the federal USA government, looking to clip one more rotor on the world’s biggest drone maker’s…

French-based drone company Parrot, the leading European manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems has announced that its new drone, the ANAFI Ai is now available for pre-order, ahead of its release…

When starting out using drones for your business, it’s important to know their capabilities — and limits. Sometimes, limitations are not technological, but legal. Operating drones Beyond Visual Line of…

Latvian drone and drone software company FIXAR has been out testing its flagship outdoor drone, the FIXAR 007 on a number of use cases in land surveying and mapping. The…

Machines are performing more and higher-level functions with each passing year, and with greater autonomy. But autonomous or not, for many of these machines to operate effectively and safely, they…

We all understand that technology usually comes in to make tasks generally easier for humans and plug the gaps that handicapped them from achieving human, economic and social progress before…

Sadly, we have not yet laid our hands on the new DJI Mavic 3 to make independent reviews yet, so for this one, we will rely on the testimony of…

The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and worsening climate change have strained supply chains past their breaking point, and the challenge of resiliency and access to life-critical goods is more…

This one is for all you innovative farmers out there looking to try out new ways to conserve their farm lands. It is a testimony by Ohio, USA farmers who…

The article below offers some really great insights about how drone technology is growing to be a really smart and game changing technology whose continued development is set to change…

American cargo drone maker Volansi are the only company in Africa whose drone delivery service does not involve medical supplies. Their work in Senegal, where they acquired an operating certificate…

Airforce veterans in drone powerhouse Israel are translating their know-how to the delivery of sushi and ice-cream, as companies tap their expertise to avoid collisions in increasingly crowded skies. On…

Yesterday, we chronicled the journey in the young life of a young American start-up who – in three short years – has changed the game for tactical response to dangerous…

It is just a fact of our lives today that instant gratification drives how we consume almost everything. We want our news delivered now; the food we have ordered to…

Of course, they are from DJI; the company makes some of the best Search and Rescue drones there are in the world. They have shared with us some pointers on…

Multinational company UNITRANS are stepping up their precision agriculture game in Africa by purchasing a fleet of the biggest sprayer drones that DJI has to offer. The new fleet of…

A few days ago, we reported that Latvian drone company, FIXAR had developed a black box technology for its multi-purpose outdoor drone, which would will vastly improve traceability and accountability…

With all these developments about the drone industry working with other stakeholders to safely integrate drone technology in the busy airspaces of world cities, one would think all the relevant…

The VillageReach president, Emily Bancroft is right – it might be sound like a tired cliché, but necessity really is the mother of all invention. Ms Bancroft feels it is…

We are sure most of you will remember the recent coverage we did of Cape Town-based drone services company, Integrated Aerial Systems (IAS) being named among the 50 winners of…

If you think drone technology is indispensable for some industries today, just wait until it is fitted with the superpowers of 5G network technology. In words of simple syllable, it…

It has been a while since the world first learned about Volocopter’s Volodrone; a mid-range cargo and agricultural drone was supposed to the game changer in middle distance cargo logistics….

Remember the story we covered last year about Canadian drone company, Drone Delivery Canada announcing that it had made successful trials to use drone technology as a first responder in…

For some, the construction industry is a notoriously slow adopter of technology. In recent time, the most exciting technological development to disrupt the industry may have been 3D printing only;…

Gleaned from Commercial UAV News, this article was written by AgEagle CEO, Brandon Torres Declet, who looks at the prospects of drone technology in three industries – agriculture, infrastructure and…

This one goes out to all the smart people in Africa who are leading the race to make the first perfect drone made in Africa. We know we already have…

Drones in mining operations are used for a varied range of applications: from exploration, surveying and mapping to maintaining safety and enhancing security. Different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are equipped…

as Amazon, DHL, close operations Callum Holland – a fifteen-year veteran of unmanned aviation technology and head of Flight Operations at Thales UK – did warn us not long ago…

Security drones have been good to humans. Well… most of them anyway. They have saved lives. They have saved people from dangerous situations. They have implored people to be careful…

The question of whether it is a plane or a bird has been answered. It is a kite. No; really. We are serious. Or rather, Swoop Aero are serious; because…

Twice now, we have written about how drone technology has been deployed to clean up in two African countries looking to erase the tragic remnants of civil war. We have…

…according to Denise Soesilo One of the founders of Outsight International – a consulting and project management company for the humanitarian and development sector – Denise Soesilo is a world-renowned…

Spoiler alert… it is bright. The World Economic Forum has clearly warmed up to the arrival of drone technology as an economic force on the world stage. Now the world…

Humanitarian drones have been the most common way of introducing drone technology in most communities in the Global South. The drones have been mostly used for purposes like disaster response…

While industry players are having a hard time haggling with aviation authorities safely integrate drone operations into urban skylines, the situation is quite different when your company flies its drones…

Security of persons. Security of property It was the hottest topic at the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference this year. And of course, it had to be. As Kim James…

It was just the thing you would have loved to see on a lukewarm Johannesburg mid-morning whose tepid sunshine you were likely never going to feel, because you were going…

It is looks set to be a really important week for the drone community in Southern Africa, with the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference (dubbed the DUA Con) just four…

The continent of Africa might have missed out on many development opportunities over the course of history, due to various reasons beyond its people’s control – slavery and colonisation being…

By Aiga Stokenberga; Economist, Transport Global Practice; World Bank Group; and Maria Catalina Ochoa; Senior Urban Transport Specialist at the World Bank Group Transport and logistics links in Africa remain…

The following article, which first appeared on ICT Works, analyses the trajectories of drone technology development in Tanzania and Rwanda – two of East Africa’s leading countries when it comes…

About twelve kilometres away from Goma – the capital of Northern Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – lies an unpredictable neighbour. A mountain with a penchant…

Two hundred and thirty-seven. That is the number of applications drone technology can do for humans now, as found out by research company Drone Industry Insights recently. “Remember when the…

In the article below, first published by Drone Life, Kim James, the Director of UAV Aerial Works, and drone law experts share their experiences with the legal side of the…

There is no need to waste your time explaining the below article from American consulting firm, Pukka Partners. It is a great summary of of the state of the medical…

The Cape Town resident watched helplessly as the fire swooped on his home, turning everything in its path into ash and cinder. The fire had raged all day, engulfing South…

Tip of the hat of the hat to the Inter Drone Podcast for scoring this video with Harrison Wolf, one of the world’s top voices on medical drone logistics. An…

Drone technology has been identified as one of the important modern digital implements that can be used by young Africans and women to improve food security on the continent. This…

Most folks in South Africa woke up to the reality of drone technology around 2015, when its applications to various commercial ventures were beginning to attract regulatory attention. But for…

Some grim statistics to commemorate this year’s April 25. It is World Malaria Day last Sunday; and Africa has not covered itself in glory when it comes to fighting the…

Wingcopter has unveiled a new bird today. It is called the Wingcopter 198, a successor to the Wingcopter 178, which was released two years ago. Not that there is anything…

The article below follows the story of young drone entrepreneurs who are part of the AfricanDRONE Youth Scholar, a World Bank-support programme that promotes the use of drones on the…

2020 marked the 20th year in which VillageReach has been operating in Africa – and it was by far the toughest they ever faced. The non-profit organisation – launched in…

One area in which drone technology has proved its usefulness since it arrived on the scene has been in the way it has made some jobs safer for humans, who…

Morning all. A bit of a heavy one to start today. We have a dream for the story of the drone in Africa. Not the war drone, no. Africa has…

Suzanne von Rauenstein used to fly helicopters. She still does to be honest. But these days most of her time is spent behind the controls of a drone, as she…

It is now official – the year 2020 was terrible for humans. It was great for drone business. With the benefit of hindsight, we know we would have done a…

If you do not know what Women and Drones Africa Chapter’s Fireside Chats are about; they are the weekly orgy of female drone professionals and enthusiasts of drone technology on…

Seeing as we have not laid our hands on the new DJI Air 2S yet (your fault DJI), we will have to take DJI’s words on it for now. Which…

Organisation to use drones to drop flappers on power cables in bid to save birds Three years. That is what it took for the Endangered Wildlife Trust to obtain their…

The 2021 edition of the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference – set for June 24 and 25 in Johannesburg, South Africa – is pulling out all the stops to ensure…

When thinking about tech-forward industries, construction is likely not the first sector to come to mind. The industry has been notorious for its historically pedestrian uptake of modern technology, remaining…

At the Africa Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) – the first and to date the only school in Africa dedicated to teaching African youth about drone technology – they do…

This week on Trailblazing Women, Women and Drones Africa Chapter’s weekly interaction with African female drone industry players, Louise chats with Virginie Uwimana, founder of Namibian drone services company Kanie…

Reproduced below is the ‘Drone Chick’ Kim James’ take on drone technology in the security industry in South Africa. You know those kind of drones – the ones that keep…

It seems like there is trouble in paradise for most drone delivery projects in Africa. Not for Zipline though. Zipline’s operations in Rwanda, Ghana and lately, Nigeria, are fine; and…

The last time they were out, the maize crop in Zimbabwe was just a green shoot feeling the sun’s warmth for the first time and barely a few centimetres above…

None of the drones being used to map out the scale of land degradation on the west African coastline have yet to endure the drowning ordeal this legend had to…

An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation into an accident where a Squirrel helicopter struck a powerline pole and crushed to the ground, killing the pilot in the process –…

A volcano that has been sleeping peacefully for the last 800 has blown its crater in Iceland – and a drone was there to capture some incredible video footage of…

Sonet Kock knows the law. Especially as it applies to drone technology in South Africa. Bottom line; you wanna listen to Sonet talking drones. The founder of AviComply, a consulting…

Remember those good old days of our fledgling boyhood lives in rural Africa? Days filled with youthful exuberance innocence, which we spent flapping like fish in the natural pools, formed…

Morning folks. Today our attention has been drawn to a report from Zimbabwe, in Southern Africa where NewZWire reports that the government has so far failed to scratch the surface…

We do not have much to say; but if you have no idea what they mean when they talk about regular drone footage and that of FPV drones, we have…

A research team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in the USA has been rewarded for trusting a drone to deliver an organ for a patient who had…

Keller Rinaudo, the CEO of fast-growing drone logistics company, Zipline could not have said it better: “All our customers really care about is whether something goes from point A to…

The drone business might have started as just a hobby for most men, but for many women, the journey has not always been that rosy. Yet, full with the knowledge…

For the past six years, humanitarian robotics non-profit organisation WeRobotics has been working really hard to empower local drone start-ups with the right tools for them satisfy all contracts, local…

We all loved Romeo Durscher as the face of public safety drones during his time at DJI. Then – terrified of losing such an influential voice at time when the…

When drone technology gained cult popularity with a small racing community in Harare, Zimbabwe around 2016, Diana Banda was of the pioneer drone racers to don the goggles and get…

Do you remember those alien fighter jets in the movie Independence Day? The new DJI FPV (first person view) drone looks like a miniature version of that. Not that it’s…

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned against the potential of emerging technologies creating a greater digital divide, alienating lower income countries – especially those in…

We do not think any professional in the delivery drone space was under any illusions about the amount of work that needs to be done until drones can be fully…

We are sure there will come a time when the African Drone and Data Academy in Malawi will be the Harvard of Drone training in Africa, and people will walk…

Chinese drone maker fends off fraud allegations You could say something had to go wrong for the EHang fairy tale. The Chinese passenger drone manufacturing company had everything going for…

Perhaps it was a good thing that Women and drones decided it was time they stretched their reach to other parts of the world outside the organisation’s home base in…

203 days ago, on July 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) largest and most advanced rover yet – the Perseverance…

We know this might have nothing to do with Africa but (in Spider Man’s voice, just after he was snapped back to life and reunites with Mr Stark for the…

We have a bone to chew with the African Union. Five years after the then AU Commission chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma appointed a panel of really smart people (they…

It is February 15 today; exactly two months to the day the Western Cape Government Health’s Emergency Medical Services’ Drone Rescue Project were finally granted a Remote Pilot Aircraft Systems…

We all know what the year 2020 was like to all of humanity. We were all happy and looking forward to the start of another year – then just like…

From KwaZulu Natal with love. It is Zethu Gumede in the spotlight this week, in the latest instalment of Trailblazing Women on Women and Drones . A native of Kwazulu…

Around 4AM in Norway on the 30th of December last year, a hillside gave way in the village of Ask in the Gjerdrum region in eastern Norway, about 30 kilometres…

They do not waste time, do they? Just a few days ago, Women and Drones announced the launch of its first international chapter in Africa; and today, the Women and…

With drone technology making nothing of a necessarily miraculous rise in the past year, largely thanks to the need to feel the gap left by the imposition of lockdown restrictions…

Ever since drone technology started making solid inroads into the mainstream commercial and industrial operations, the laws governing them have been correspondingly revolving. In some parts, the regulatory changes have…

In the below article, Elsight Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Roee Kashee presents the case for governments worldwide to allow beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone deliveries. Kashee argues…

Swiss drone manufacturer Flyability surely knows a thing or two about drones in hostile environments. From their inaugural GimBall – which rolled away from the 2015 Drones for Good in…

It is not every day that you find a former president’s grandchild staying in the national headlines for reasons that have nothing to do with politics and scandal; for most,…

Anybody remember Bata? Of course, we are kidding. Who would claim not to know Bata, the shoe making company that – growing up – achieved the unique feat of convincing…

Kevin Sartori, co-founder of drone software company, Auterion has his, as well as world leading drone professionals’, outlook for the drone industry in the new year. By building an open-source…

2020 It has been a bit challenging as a year, hasn’t it? What with the global pandemic that sneaked upon humanity and set all its plans for the year awry….

It does feel like a death in the family; and it is in a way. Romeo Durscher – on of the most prominent evangelists for humanitarian drones in the world…

It is a real shame that almost five years since drone technology started making inroads into the African continent, their success stories in official government and other public sector circles…

The just ended Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference 2021 had experts covering various issues that included the legislative and regulatory situation in Africa and in general and South Africa in…

This will be a very, very, very quick and short one for you guys. We are delighted that the online magazine is up and running again, after almost a month…

When Dania Montenegro stepped out of the boat onto Gardi Sugdub, a tiny Caribbean island off the coast of Panama last fall, it was hurricane season. She walked through ankle-deep…

Nine thousand dead. 22,000 injured. Thousands and thousands of homes reduced to rubble; and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That’s was Nepal on April 25, 2015. It was…

Two drone technology enterprises have made the grade among 48 other ventures by young Africans whose innovative works to combat the COVID-19 scourge has been recognised in a special magazine…

Written by Joe Mariani, Research Manager, Centre for Government Insights at Deloitte; and Peter Liu, Managing Director, Deloitte Today’s drone technology owes its lineage to work at the Defense Advanced Research…

Drones have changed how we see the world. Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we experience the world – how we decide the events that matter and create our…

There is a Zimbabwean adage which goes, one man’s troubles will not stop another from eating. DJI has come to realise the truth of this saying of late, as they…

The best way technology can witness an exponential growth for citizens of the Global South is by promoting local technological entrepreneurship. At least that is the submission of Leka Tingitana,…

You know that drone which we reported to have lost turf war with a bald eagle and got drowned in lake Michigan? It was dredged up on Tuesday, muddy and…

It was the sound of gunfire, dynamite and screams that woke residents of Esther Park this morning. The middle density suburb about a kilometre or so to the South of…

Today, we celebrate the achievements of William Ndja Elong, a young Cameroonian whose dream of producing drones made in Africa has seen remarkable success. Elong is 27 now; but he…

Below we reproduce an article from Drone Industry Insights, a reputable business intelligence company offering insights into the commercial drone industry. The article was written by Millie Radovic, a Market…

WASHINGTON – Cough medicine, snacks, baking ingredients: Kelly Passek has shopping delivered weekly to her yard in Christiansburg, Virginia – by a drone. The flying vehicle comes with little fuss,…